Recaps

The Donquixote Family reached Germa 66, where invited guests gathered for a celebration and had to pass a strength test to bring additional people inside. After Pica's punch failed to move the gatekeeper, the black-haired youth took his turn and charged with a fist trailed by a dark tide.

• Doflamingo, Vergo, and Pica slaughtered a pirate crew and seized its ship, which Rossi ordered to be towed away.
• Rossi warned the Donquixote Family to stay alert as ships from across the North Blue converged on Germa 66.
• The family arrived at the Vinsmoke Family's floating fortress, the Saint Germain, and learned each invitation credential allowed only one person to enter.
• A charred Vinsmoke gatekeeper killed a pirate captain and offered one additional entry to anyone who could make his feet move within a minute.
• Pica struck the gatekeeper hard enough to sink his feet into the paving stones, but the gatekeeper said that counted as movement.
• The black-haired youth stepped forward, warned that they could not waste time, and rushed the gatekeeper with a fist trailed by a dark tide.

Rossi's party entered the Vinsmoke fortress for Judge and Sora's engagement celebration, where they encountered dangerous guests and learned that the Happo Navy was negotiating an arms deal with the Vinsmokes. Sora accepted her role as Judge's political bridge while hiding her true feelings, and the wedding ceremony had yet to begin.

• Rossi's party reached the fortress after a charred captain tested them, and the captain let them pass after the boy threw him aside.
• Judge spoke privately with Sora, describing her as a bridge between their families, while Sora concealed her dissatisfaction with their arranged marriage.
• Diamante dismissed a noble girl's explanation of a painting, and Rossi warned his party that the hall held many powerful guests.
• Rossi's group and the girl's companions assessed one another, while a woman with the Dragonfly Form overheard Rossi's warning by reading lips.
• The girl acknowledged that the Happo Navy's arms deal with the Vinsmokes was crucial and urged caution, then noted that the groom had not yet appeared.

At Vinsmoke Judge’s engagement ceremony, the guests were invited to compete in an arena for the Stone-Stone Fruit, drawing attention to the Donquixote Family. Doflamingo entered first and defeated the pirate Moritz, leaving the contest underway.

• Vinsmoke Judge welcomed the guests and revealed an arena, inviting them to fight for his family’s friendship and the Stone-Stone Fruit.
• Rossi and Doflamingo recognized that the Donquixote Family’s eight combatants had become targets for the other factions.
• Doflamingo leaped into the arena and challenged the guests, while Rossi assured Jora that Doflamingo could handle the fight without support creations.
• Moritz, a dual-blade fighter known as “Wind Blade,” accepted Doflamingo’s challenge and attacked at high speed.
• Doflamingo countered Moritz’s blade techniques with his strings and struck him down, leaving him bleeding in the sand.

Doflamingo defeated Moritz with concealed threads, while Rossi explained the Vinsmoke Family’s genetic technology and the banquet’s arena fights drew increasingly powerful contenders. After Pica was badly injured and a gold-armored fighter beat three challengers, Judge assessed the fighters as potential recruits for Vinsmoke combat suits.

• Doflamingo defeated Moritz with an invisible thread trap, and Rossi warned his companions that weak defenses could decide a battle.
• Rossi explained that the Vinsmoke Family used genetic engineering to give its warriors abilities resembling Devil Fruit powers, so they had little interest in the Stone-Stone Fruit.
• Linglong discussed the prize with Xiaofeng, who refused to fight on Vinsmoke territory, and decided she would try to claim the fruit herself.
• As the banquet’s arena fights intensified, Pica fought a Zoan user and was carried away with severe bite wounds; Rossi advised his companions to watch for opponents’ tails as well as their claws and teeth.
• A man in golden armor defeated three challengers in a row, leaving the arena without another volunteer to face him.
• A researcher reported the fighters’ strength assessments to Judge, who considered how Vinsmoke combat suits could improve them and use them in his plans.

Linglong defeated the golden-armored fighter with her family’s Hasshoken technique, then challenged Rossi for the Stone-Stone Fruit. Rossi accepted and traded sword strikes with her, ending the chapter with their blades locked.

• Linglong entered the arena and defeated the golden-armored fighter with a single Hasshoken palm strike.
• Rossi explained Hasshoken to Doflamingo and the others, identifying Linglong as a member of Chinjao’s clan.
• Linglong challenged Rossi to fight for the Stone-Stone Fruit, and Rossi descended into the arena with Sandai Kitetsu.
• Linglong revealed the blade hidden in her fan, Osprey, and blocked Rossi’s Oni Giri with Heavy Servitude.

Rossi fought a skilled swordswoman from the Flower Country’s Happo Navy, overcoming her swordsmanship and Hasshoken Martial Palm with Conqueror’s Haki and a burst of speed to win the duel. Though badly injured, he called for the next challenger, and a pirate stepped into the arena before someone in the stands ordered him to kneel.

• The Happo Navy swordswoman used Skillful Seal to overwhelm Rossi with rapid thrusts and cut his forearm.
• Rossi unleashed Conqueror’s Haki and a black-and-red attack, but she regained her focus, deflected it with Scatter Blossoms, and knocked his sword away with Swallow Return.
• Rossi used a thunderous clap and successive kicks to disarm and strike the swordswoman, but she countered with Hasshoken Martial Palm and hurled him into the stone railing.
• Rossi rose despite his injuries and used a burst of speed to press his blade against the swordswoman’s throat, winning the duel.
• The swordswoman conceded and praised Rossi’s footwork; he called for another challenger, and a grinning pirate stepped into the arena before a voice from the stands shouted, “Kneel!”

Rossi won the arena fight and received the Stone-Stone Fruit, which Diamante ate after Vergo declined it. The Donquixote brothers then attended a private banquet at Germa 66, where a woman said they were absent and had matters to attend to.

• Doflamingo precisely knocked out the pirate captain with his presence, and Vinsmoke Judge declared Rossi the winner.
• Trebol and Diamante helped the injured Rossi back to his seat, where he refused treatment from a man in a white coat.
• A blond Vinsmoke representative gave Rossi the Stone-Stone Fruit and invited the Donquixote family to a private banquet.
• Vergo declined the fruit, and Rossi advised Diamante that Haki and inner strength mattered more than relying on a Devil Fruit.
• Diamante ate the Stone-Stone Fruit and said he would focus on mastering its power.
• At the banquet beneath Germa 66’s flag, a woman told the gathered diners that the Donquixote brothers were away handling other matters.

At Vinsmoke Judge’s banquet, he recruited pirates and merchants to help the Vinsmoke Family take control of North Blue, starting with nations outside the World Government alliance. After the guests left, Judge confirmed an arms shipment for Linglong in exchange for her full support, while Rossi remained present.

• Vinsmoke Judge declared that the Vinsmoke Family needed help taking control of North Blue and promised wealth, land, and Devil Fruits in return.
• After a guest asked about the Marines, Judge clarified that the campaign would first target nations outside the World Government alliance.
• Pirates and merchants pledged their support, while Rossi, Doffy, and Linglong remained restrained as the others celebrated.
• Judge later listed an arms shipment for Linglong, including five thousand Eagle-3s, matching ammunition, and stun grenades.
• Linglong accepted Judge’s request for her full support in exchange for the shipment, and Rossi remained in the hall.

Linglong and Rossi secured Vinsmoke Judge’s support for their family’s conditions as Germa launched its campaign to conquer the North Blue. The Donquixote fleet sailed north toward Simoor, while Antwerp Port celebrated Dragon-Slaying Day and its former rebels’ rise to wealth and power; the chapter ended as the guards brought the blind old man Moglin into the hall.

• Linglong arranged for Xiaofeng and Happo Navy fighters to accompany her, and Judge welcomed their help in the coming campaign.
• Rossi obtained Judge’s agreement to spare the Entagru Alliance and let the Donquixote Family attack Simoor to settle old matters.
• Judge sent Germa’s forces and their guests toward their assigned targets, then led the Saint Germain toward the Kingdom of Luo Xiu Wang.
• Doffy and Rossi sailed north with the Donquixote fleet, their Haki and presence impressing the soldiers aboard the Snail Ships.
• Antwerp Port’s wealthy former rebels celebrated Dragon-Slaying Day while boasting of their fortunes and discussing the abuse of a woman they claimed to have rescued.
• The mayor sent guards to investigate a disturbance, and they brought the blind old man Moglin into the hall.

Rossi and Doflamingo returned to Antwerp and confronted the mayor and the town’s self-proclaimed heroes over their corruption and abuses. After seizing the town and gathering its residents in the square, Rossi began questioning the mayor about the murder of his children and moved on to another captive.

• Blind Moglin demanded the overdue compensation, but the mayor claimed the funds had run out and had guards throw him into the street.
• Rossi and Doflamingo arrived, and Doflamingo killed the mayor’s youngest son and cut down the soldiers who attacked them.
• Rossi ordered the town sealed and its residents gathered in the square while Doflamingo stopped Trebol from wiping out the town.
• Rossi had the mayor and other men brought onto the platform, then questioned the mayor about his children’s deaths at the hands of the Celestial Dragons.
• Rossi asked whether he, Doflamingo, or a couple who had once lived in town had killed the children; the mayor denied it, and Rossi called for the next captive.

Rossi confronted the townspeople over their role in attacking Doffy’s family, and the crowd turned on those involved as the town descended into violence and fire. Aboard the Donquixote, Doffy broke through a new level of perception, dodging Rossi’s shots, while Rossi recognized that Doffy had awakened the same ability he possessed.

• Rossi questioned the townspeople about the couple they had attacked, and the crowd could not name any crime the couple had committed.
• The mayor urged the townspeople to finish Rossi’s group, but a man knocked him from the platform and the crowd beat him to death.
• People who had taken part in the past attack were dragged into the crowd and killed, while others on the platform took their own lives; Rossi then led his group away.
• The town’s residents set fires and looted as chaos spread, and a blind old man cursed the world before falling into the harbor.
• Doffy watched the harbor burn and felt freed from the nightmare of his past.
• Vergo described a heightened perception of the world, and Rossi fired repeatedly at Doffy, who dodged every shot with precise movements.

Rossi and Doflamingo tested their abilities in a fierce training duel, and Rossi discovered that his Calm-Calm Fruit could suppress Observation Haki. He resolved to develop that power further as the ship approached Butlerage Port under artillery fire.

• A Column Commander delivered documents confirming a payment of four billion Beli to Doflamingo and Rossi.
• Rossi and Doflamingo sparred, each using their ability to anticipate and counter the other's attacks.
• Rossi revealed that the Calm-Calm Fruit could erase the sounds Doflamingo relied on to sense movements with Observation Haki.
• Doflamingo built a web of strings to track and trap Rossi, and the two fought through the night before discussing the fruit's range, stamina cost, and limits.
• Rossi considered how to develop the fruit's ability to block Observation Haki as artillery fire lit up Butlerage Port.

Rossi and the Vinsmoke Family attacked a North Blue city, where Rossi fought General Briken while Doflamingo and others pursued the ruler. At Marine Headquarters, Dragon confronted Kong over the civilian deaths and was ordered to join Garp’s mission to face Golden Lion’s fleet.

• The Vinsmoke Family’s ships bombarded the docks as Rossi and five others ran across the sea toward the city.
• Briken rallied the defenders, but Rossi’s group crossed the water and broke through their lines; Doflamingo, Pica, and Jora headed into town to capture its ruler.
• Rossi fought Briken and dodged a Flying Slash, then continued the duel to study the general’s swordsmanship.
• Dragon delivered a report of 370,000 civilian deaths in the North Blue, and Kong said the Navy had no obligation to intervene in non-Affiliated Nations.
• Kong told Dragon that Golden Lion had Roger trapped at Edd War and ordered him to leave with Garp and Borsalino’s reconnaissance unit; Dragon asked what would happen if he refused.

Dragon challenged Kong over the Navy’s refusal to intervene against the Vinsmoke Family in the North Blue, then left with his doubts unresolved. Meanwhile, Rossi captured Bootleg and defeated its defenders, but the general chose to die rather than surrender.

• Dragon asked whether the Navy’s idea of justice could ignore suffering, and Kong explained that the Navy served the 175 affiliated nations and would not act against the Vinsmokes unless they attacked one.
• Kong confirmed that Sengoku and Garp would take over the Edd War assignment, while Dragon left after questioning whether people outside the affiliated nations breathed the same air.
• Garp told Kong that Dragon would make his own choices, and Kong warned Garp and Sengoku to watch Golden Lion and Roger.
• In Bootleg, the captured lord announced surrender over an amplifier snail, and Rossi told the surviving soldiers that their resistance was over.
• Rossi spared the wounded general, but the general declared that a lord could surrender while a general could not, then killed himself with his sword.

As the Vinsmoke Family’s forces conquered much of the North Blue, Rossi warned the Donquixote Family that Judge’s ambitions would eventually bring the Marines against them. Doflamingo and Linglong ordered their people to secure assets and prepare to retreat, while the next morning’s signals hinted at new developments.

• Rossi left after a fallen opponent’s sword clattered beside the rubble.
• The Vinsmoke Family’s alliance conquered more than a dozen unaffiliated nations, and Judge celebrated his growing power at a massive banquet.
• Rossi told Doflamingo that Judge would provoke the World Government-affiliated nations and that the Marines would eventually destroy the Vinsmoke Family’s gains.
• Doflamingo ordered Trebol to sell their souvenirs and secure Beli, gold, or weapons, told Diamante to recruit lone fighters, and tasked Jora with monitoring allied nobles.
• Linglong ordered the Happo Navy to send out its weapon cargo and sell its spoils, and warned Xiaofeng to retreat if powerful Marines appeared.
• The next morning, signal flags and communications Den Den Mushi filled the sea as activity began between the ships.

The North Blue war between four kingdoms began as Rossi’s fleet attacked Pirada’s forces, with Doflamingo and Vergo breaking through one ship while Rossi confronted Rear Admiral Amini. Rossi exposed the hidden fleet and silenced the battlefield, but Amini revealed that Rossi’s side had fallen into a trap just as a powerful attacker struck the hull.

• A thousand ships split into four fleets, and Rossi, Linglong, Vinsmoke Judge, and the Vinsmoke Family commander led their forces into the North Blue war.
• Rossi’s fleet clashed with Pirada’s ships, while Doflamingo controlled enemy soldiers with his threads and Vergo blocked a master swordsman’s attack.
• Doflamingo defeated the warship’s commander’s resistance and discovered that communications with Rear Admiral Amini had been cut.
• Rossi confronted Amini, whose Steel Body withstood Rossi’s attacks, while another crewmate moved through the ship and incapacitated soldiers.
• Rossi silenced the battlefield and revealed the concealed snail-shaped ships, but Amini declared that Rossi’s side had fallen into a trap.
• A burly, red-haired, dark-skinned figure launched a cutting surge of air through the sea and struck the warship’s hull.

Rossi and Doffy’s forces fought Parada’s fleet after discovering the Holy Shield was a decoy, with El Drago’s sound blasts turning the battle against them. Rossi awakened a new perception and killed Rear Admiral Amini, while Doffy’s group advanced on El Drago; the fleets finally separated, escorting the true commander, the Prince, away.

• Rossi realized the Holy Shield was a trap and faced Rear Admiral Amini while El Drago’s sound-wave attacks devastated the allied fleet.
• Doffy killed the Steed captain and led Diamante, Vergo, and Jora toward El Drago.
• Amini struck Rossi with a concentrated heat attack, but Rossi cut through it and survived unharmed.
• Rossi perceived the seams in Amini’s steel-like body and killed him with Steel Severing.
• The battered fleets broke apart, and two warships escorted the true commander, the Prince, away from the battle.

After defeating a powerful enemy, Rossi reached the threshold of Cutting Steel and taught the Donquixote Family its principles. Vinsmoke Judge claimed Parada for himself, while the story shifted to the looming clash between Gol D. Roger and Shiki in Edd War and left Pirada Kingdom in ruins.

• Rossi arrived after the battle and found Doffy and the survivors amid the wreckage; Doffy urged them to celebrate their victory.
• Rossi announced he had reached the threshold of Cutting Steel, then explained the technique to the family and encouraged Diamante to pursue it.
• Diamante vowed to master Cutting Steel in three days and succeeded in slicing through iron on the third day.
• Vinsmoke Judge claimed Parada's lands and told Rossi to withdraw and recover, prompting Rossi to prepare to leave the Vinsmoke ship.
• In Edd War, Gol D. Roger refused Shiki's offer to join him, and Silvers Rayleigh and Douglas joined Roger's crew as they prepared to fight the Flying Pirates.
• Pirada Kingdom's former capital lay in ruins as armed pirates roamed among the wreckage.

Rossi and Doffy crossed the ruined Pirada Kingdom, rescued Bainessarna and Gladius, and welcomed the siblings as prospective Donquixote family members before joining the others to celebrate the Vinsmoke victory. Meanwhile, Roger and Shiki’s clash devastated the sea at Edd War as Sengoku and Garp approached, and the chapter ended with the sea splitting open before them.

• Rossi and Doffy encountered pirates attacking Bainessarna and Gladius, and Rossi drove the attackers away.
• Gladius asked to follow Doffy, who accepted him and Bainessarna as prospective family members.
• Doffy’s group gathered weapons, money, gold, and documents, with Pica burying the loot inside the earth.
• Doffy led the group toward the palace as pirates across Pirada celebrated the kingdom’s fall and the Vinsmoke Family’s victory.
• Roger and Shiki clashed at Edd War, and their Haki and sword strikes battered nearby ships and threw up towering waves.
• Sengoku and Garp approached the battle as two figures leaped from their ship and the sea split into a widening abyss.

Garp and Sengoku arrived to confront Golden Lion as he unleashed a colossal sea-lion attack. Elsewhere, Doffy and Rossi attended a banquet celebrating Germa’s conquest of the North Blue, where Rossi encountered a cloaked man questioning the Navy’s justice; the Donquixote brothers remained focused on power and profit.

• Garp tore through the sea and destroyed seven pirate ships before challenging Golden Lion to return home.
• Sengoku attacked with a giant golden palm, and Golden Lion raised hundreds of meters of seawater into a roaring lion to strike back.
• The supreme Germa King presided over a banquet after four resisting monarchs were killed and another part of the North Blue was conquered.
• Diamante warned Doffy that rivals were waiting for an opening, but Doffy said the Donquixotes wanted more than control of one sea.
• Rossi met a cloaked man who challenged the Navy’s failure to deliver justice after a hundred thousand people died; Rossi argued that power determined whose rules prevailed.
• Rossi returned to Doffy’s table as the Happo Navy party left, and Doffy dismissed concern for the dead as a loser’s burden.

Monkey D. Dragon confronted Vinsmoke Judge at the Germa Kingdom’s gathering, declaring he had come to seek justice for Parada’s hundred thousand dead. As Germa’s forces attacked, Dragon transformed into a dragon and swept over the city, leaving its inhabitants terrified amid widespread destruction.

• Rossi spoke with a cloaked stranger about justice, then recognized him as Monkey D. Dragon when he revealed his face in the hall.
• Dragon declared he would seek justice for Parada’s dead, and Vinsmoke Judge armored himself as Germa soldiers surrounded the hall.
• Germa’s soldiers fired on Dragon, but their bullets passed through his shifting form and struck one another; Dragon’s power warped the hall and subdued the attackers.
• Rossi and his companions followed their escape plan as Dragon faced Judge and the gathering descended into chaos.
• A dragon passed over the port city, terrifying the pirates and residents as buildings shook and collapsed in its wake.
• A pirate hid in a cellar while the city continued to crumble, recalling an old pirate’s warning that human-made power could not be the strongest force in the world.

Dragon destroyed the palace and devastated the royal capital, then confronted Rossi and the survivors. Rossi sent the Donquixote Family underground to escape while the Vinsmoke Family and Happo Navy prepared to withdraw or fight.

• A fleeing man took the emerald ring and escaped the burning city aboard a ship as Dragon’s hurricane destroyed the palace and swept across the capital.
• Dragon shielded ordinary civilians from the winds, then used Dragon’s Hook Claw to force Rossi, Doffy, and the others out of their underground refuge; Jora treated Pica’s injuries.
• Dragon summoned tornadoes around the ruined capital, trapping the survivors and leaving Rossi convinced the group had no chance against him.
• Rossi ordered the Donquixote Family to flee, and Jora gave him a ring that might block one attack before Pica took the others underground.
• The Happo Navy retreated with Linglong while the Vinsmoke Family held its position and raised weapons toward the sky.

Dragon overwhelmed Rossi, Doflamingo, Judge, and their allies in battle, while Rossi realized Dragon was struggling with his beliefs about justice. The chapter left Dragon questioning who had the right to judge right and wrong.

• Judge attacked Dragon with Seastone-powder shells, but Dragon’s wind barrier deflected them, and Judge, Xiaofeng, and Rossi charged him together.
• Dragon unleashed a storm of wind blades that wounded Rossi, but Vergo, a rapier-wielding ally, and Doflamingo returned to protect him.
• Rossi tried to stop a wounded soldier resembling 8674, but the man said he would protect his memories even if they were false before he was killed.
• Dragon defeated the family’s fighters, including Pica, and Rossi and Doflamingo were the only ones left standing.
• Rossi approached Dragon, who reflected on the Marines’ silence during the North Blue’s tragedies and questioned who could judge right and wrong.

Rossi persuaded Dragon to abandon indiscriminate bloodshed and later agreed to help him rebuild the sixteen devastated kingdoms. Dragon accepted the Donquixote family’s offer of supplies and support in exchange for teaching them combat skills, beginning a cooperation aimed at challenging the rulers above the clouds.

• Rossi warned Dragon that destroying every power in the North Blue would create chaos and argued that shared rules, not bloodshed, could bring peace.
• Dragon left after learning that Rossi knew of Imu, the hidden ruler above the Five Elders and Admirals.
• The Edd War overshadowed the North Blue conflict, and the Vinsmoke name faded from public attention while the Donquixote family expanded its territory.
• Dragon arrived at Rose Manor as a former Marine and asked Rossi and Doflamingo to help rebuild the sixteen kingdoms.
• Rossi offered food and tools and promised future weapons and funding in exchange for combat training for the family.
• Doflamingo declared that their goal was to pull the gods from above the clouds, and Dragon accepted the deal.

Rossi formed an alliance with Dragon, who agreed to train him and Doffy, while the Happo Navy gave the Donquixote family a method for learning Armament Haki. After learning that enemies might spy by reading lips, Rossi ordered the family to focus on training, preparing for the powerful figures he expected to rise.

• Rossi proposed that Dragon unite oppressed countries under the name Dawn Army, and Dragon agreed to train Rossi and Doffy for three days each month.
• Doffy nearly revealed his secret knowledge about Imu and immortal life, but Diamante interrupted to announce the arrival of the Happo Navy.
• Xiaofeng gave Rossi a booklet explaining how to train Armament Haki, and Linglong warned him that lip-readers could spy on conversations despite his silence field.
• Vergo revealed that he could read lips, prompting Rossi and the family to discuss ways to prevent eavesdropping before deciding to strengthen their Haki and train.
• Rossi ordered the whole family to train, doubled Trebol's workload, and the family began strenuous exercises while one member went to cut steel.